James D. Groves

James Daniel Groves (born 12 July 1941) was a Corporal in the MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War.

Biography
James Daniel Groves was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 12 July 1941. Groves was drafted into the US Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, so he chose to become a member of the MACV-SOG special forces team and fight with the best. During the Kim Thuy operation (9 February 1968), he landed in a South Vietnamese village on a helicopter with three other SOG agents to assist Alex Mason and Joseph Bowman's teams in taking out a Viet Cong village. He survived the firefight in the village, and was awarded the Silver Star for his bravery in taking out the Viet Cong defenses. Groves later aided in MACV-SOG's operations in central Southern Vietnam, and remained there until the United States withdrew from Vietnam in 1973.